Tag: Opioids
How does Narcan work? Mapping how it reverses opioid overdose can...
Saif Khan, University of Southern California
Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is one of the most...
New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is...
Jonathan Larsen, Temple University; Amy Yeung, Penn State; Dennis Scanlon, Penn State, and Renee Cloutier, University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania...
Balancing kratom’s potential benefits and risks − new legislation in Colorado...
David Kroll, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
David Bregger had never heard of kratom before his son, Daniel,...
Colorado’s fentanyl criminalization bill won’t solve the opioid epidemic, say the...
Katherine LeMasters, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation...
Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly street fentanyl − creating new...
Kory London, Thomas Jefferson University and Karen Alexander, Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia’s street opioid supply – or “dope” market...
Why Trump’s tariffs can’t solve America’s fentanyl crisis
Rodney Coates, Miami University
Americans consume more illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world; about 6%...
Nearly 2 million Americans are using kratom yearly, but it is...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
The herbal substance kratom, derived from the leaves of a Southeast Asian tree,...
Dozens of US adolescents are dying from drug overdoses every month...
Ty Schepis, Texas State University
Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.
Overdoses...
EXPLORING NATURE
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
